Refugees
The Moss Review: Save the Children staff weren’t in the wrong
The government has reviewed their decision to remove ten Save the Children staff from the asylum seeker detention centre in......
Indonesia Warns Australia of ‘Human Tsunami’
As Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran await their latest legal appeal Indonesia’s coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs......
Australia breaches torture convention: UN
The United Nations has released a report saying Australia has breached the International Convention against Torture by failing to provide......
Is Operation Sovereign Borders the best framework for tackling terrorism?
In his speech on National Security yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott flagged that his government will bring the same ‘drive’,......
Remembering Reza Berati one year on
A year ago today asylum seeker Reza Berati died after he was brutally bashed to death in Australia’s Manus Island......
Western Sydney’s literary Spring
Western Sydney is one of Australia’s most diverse and populous regions, home to over 1.6 million people, including refugee and......
Children in detention suffering mental trauma
Children who are detained in mandatory indefinite detention are suffering from a wide range of physical and mental health issues......
Playing politics with the mental health of detained children
The Human Rights Commission report into asylum seeker children in detention has been dismissed today by the government as a......
European Union ditches Mare Nostrum and pursues deterrence policy for refugees
Over the past five years, the numbers of refugees arriving in Europe, by boat into the Mediterranean and on foot......
Anger in Nauru
As attacks on refugees in Nauru continue fear is mounting. It is a small minority of Nauruans spreading ideas of......